diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index caad098c683d..c75de2d66338 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20230612:
+	Belatedly switch the default nvme block device on x86 from nvd to nda.
+	nda created nvd compatibility links by default, so this should be a
+	nop. If this causes problems for your application, set hw.nvme.use_nvd=1
+	in your loader.conf or add `options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to your kernel
+	config. The default has been nda on all non-x86 platforms for some time
+	now. If you need to fall back, please email imp@freebsd.org about why.
+
 20230422:
 	Remove portsnap(8).  Users are encouraged to obtain the ports tree
 	using git instead.
diff --git a/sys/dev/nvme/nvme_sysctl.c b/sys/dev/nvme/nvme_sysctl.c
index d6011bc34951..c238c86af5a2 100644
--- a/sys/dev/nvme/nvme_sysctl.c
+++ b/sys/dev/nvme/nvme_sysctl.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 #include "nvme_private.h"
 
 #ifndef NVME_USE_NVD
-#define NVME_USE_NVD 1
+#define NVME_USE_NVD 0
 #endif
 
 int nvme_use_nvd = NVME_USE_NVD;